ReactOS ran Half-Life with real GPU acceleration — the hard part Linux sidesteps with translation (phoronix.com)
Steam on Linux runs newer games fine — but by translating DirectX onto Vulkan. ReactOS did the harder thing: load the native Nvidia driver for an old GeForce 8 card directly, the way Windows itself would.
Whether that's triumph or indictment is the open question. As one reader noted, ReactOS has been in development almost exactly as long as Half-Life itself has existed.
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